Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:43): My question is to the Premier and is actually along the lines of Mr Quilty’s question. For weeks now businesses in Western Victoria have been preparing and planning to return to 75 per cent capacity in their workplaces on Monday. Families have been planning events with 30 people present. Now a single case of coronavirus hundreds of kilometres away in Melbourne will preclude them from doing so. Western Victorian businesses have been crippled by the edicts of Melbourne over the past 10 months deliberated by this Premier, working at reduced capacity or even being shut down completely despite a complete lack of virus contamination. So I ask the Premier: why are Western Victorian businesses and families subjected to the same capacity limit restrictions as businesses in Melbourne in your reinstated restrictions?